[LLVMdev] ACE claims better result than LLVM for ARM 9 ?

[Evan Cheng]

I guess we should be flattered that companies are using LLVM as the baseline for their bogus assertions.

Evan

On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 27, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Sebastien DELDON-GNB wrote:
> 
>> ACE issued following PR:
>> http://www.ace.nl/news/aces-cosy-compiler-framework-outperforms-llvm-arm9-processor
>> Weird that they don't give any number and use ARM 9, do they mean cortex-a9 ?
> 
> It's impossible to say.  This sort of marketing statement is impossible to refute, because there are no details.  Who knows whether they compared against LLVM fairly with it tuning for the right architecture, had frame pointers set the same way, etc...
> 
> -Chris
> 
> ps, it's hard to take them seriously when they make factually incorrect statements like LLVM 3.0 being the latest, and give no way to validate their claims.
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